Monday, February 28, 2011

My mosaic: What Dreams May Come








In my mosaic, I have six main colors to describe the most impressive scene in "What Dreams May Come" for me. First of all, I use "blue", "purple" and "brown" colors to represent the tree.








(1.) Tree(leaves): which was painted by Annie to build up a visible bridge of connection between her and her husband.



"Blue": represents the feeling of melancholy, sorrow and cool. (For Annie, it conveys the deep sorrow for losing her husband)






"Purple": represents the three main themes,




- loyalty: Annie loves Chris no matter what is he alive or dead. Her love is endless. Nothing can't change or destroy her love to her husband.

-sentimentality: She can't get rid of her despair and hopelessness from her husband's death.

-mystery: This couple is strongly connected with each other by the wife's painting. This supernatural phenomenon is just like a mystery. It's hard to understand what the reality in the clip is since the two main characters keep struggling between dream and real life, heaven and hell.

Therefore, I was trying to take pictures from maybe a purple and blue tree but I couldn't find it so I just take pictures from some purple and blue flowers to help me convey my feeling for the tree in the clip.


(2.) Red heart: love and passion

Then, I put "red" heart on the tree between the couple to represent not only the red cloak which we saw from the clip but also their strong affection to each other. It's also the symbol of " soul mate." Even the tree will fade away, the love won't disappear and it will keep in their mind forever and ever. That's the reason why my tree is composed of colors fragments because it's not real and it's also fading. However, the impregnable red heart won't be destroyed no matter what will happen in the future.

(3.) Main Character:

Chris- "Black" ; Annie-"White"


Although I use "black" color for Chris, and "white" color for Annie, the meaning which I try to convey from the two colors is opposite. Chris wears the black suit in the clip which represents the color of death. However, he is actually live in the heaven which we should give him the white color to be his symbol. On the contrary, Annie wears the white dress in the clip which represents "live " and "pure". However, her mind is longer pure as before. She has more negative thoughts and turn out to be close to the death and hell.


(4.) Background: Gray

Since their situation is between real life and dream, heaven and hell. It looks quite obscure and complicated so I just put some "gray" colors fragments in the background.

2 comments:

  1. I think your essay is really easy to read! because it is organized very well! I tortally agree with the meaning of the colors, especially the gray color. The way that you express the grey color in your mosaic is really simple and fresh!

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  2. I love your pictures. All pictures are related with the movie. If I had pick one which is my favorite, I choose the last picture. Even though, this picture is not real, I mean there is no "purple color world", but I can imagine the movie secene. Awesome!!!

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